NEW DIABETES EDUCATION BLOG


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SEXY SENIOR JOB APPLICATION:

downloaded from a senior blog site by:
Diabetic Dick 6/17/06


RECENT JOB APPLICATION BY
OVERQUALIFIED SENIOR CITIZEN

Here is an actual application that a 75-year-old man submitted to Wal-Mart in Arkansas.
They hired him because he was so funny

NAME: Jack Buckley (Grumpy Bastard)

DESIRED POSITION: Company President or Vice President. But seriously, whatever is available.

DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package. If that is not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.

EDUCATION: Yes

LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management.

PREVIOUS SALARY: A lot less than I am worth.

MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it-notes.

REASON FOR LEAVING: It sucked.

HOURS AVAILABLE FOR WORK: Any.

PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS? Yes, but they are better suited to a more intimate environment.

MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER? If I had one would I be here?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITION THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS? Of What?

DO YOU HAVE A CAR? I think the more appropriate question here is, "Do you have a car that runs?"

HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITIONS? I may already be a winner of the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes, so they tell me.

DO YOU SMOKE? On the job - no. On my breaks - yes.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS? Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy, dumb, sexy, blonde supermodel who thinks I am the greatest things since sliced bread. Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.

NEAREST RELATIVE: 100 miles.

DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE? Oh yes - absolutely!!

J. Buckley

Next provocative and heart warming article:
DISABILITY, DEMENTIA and DEATH
In NURSING HOMES
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Links I Love

by Richard Tuniewicz (dicktun@hotmail.com)


DEEP AND RATIONAL FEMALE VIEWS (she’s really great): http://accordingtothemichael.blogspot.com

COMPUTER EXPERT (Consultant) WEB SITE: Good info:
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/


RATE YOUR LIFE! – http://preethika.blogspot.com/

NURSING HOME ABUSE – http://www.lawyers.com/lawyers/A~1001884~LDC/Nursing+Home+Abuse+FAQ.html

COMPETENCE?, CAPACITY? OR INSTITUTION? – http://diabeticdick1.blogspot.com/2006/06/incompetance-incapacity-or-institution.html

Diabetic Dick – The Wayward Ward – http://diabeticdick1.blogspot.com/

HEALTH ISSUES OF A 68 YEAR OLD:
Patients Progress – http://patientsprogress.blogspot.com/

by: richardtuniewicz@yahoo.com 6/17/06

Stress vs. Mind Control for the Diabetic


Duke Health Brief: Using the Mind to Fight Diabetes
keywords :
Diabetes, Stress Management

date :
4/1/2004

media contact :
Tracey Koepke , (919) 684-4148 or (919) 660-1301 koepk002@mc.duke.edu

editor's note :
"Duke Health Briefs" contains consumer health information and is distributed weekly by the Duke University Medical Center News Office. To hear an audio clip of this Health Brief, visit Duke MedMinute.

With diabetes reaching epidemic proportions among the U.S. population, patients and health providers are looking for new ways to help manage this serious condition. One expert says learning to control stress may be part of the answer.

Richard Surwit, Ph.D., vice chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center, has been studying the connection between stress hormones and blood glucose levels for two decades. Research shows the link is indeed a direct one.

"It just so happens that what endocrinologists call counterregulatory hormones, hormones that are responsible for controlling blood sugar, psychologists call stress hormones," he explains. "These are the same hormones, but they're used by the body in different ways. What we've found is that the effect of stress hormones on glucose metabolism is profound, and that relatively simple stress-management techniques can have clinically meaningful effects on glucose control in people with diabetes."

"If and when your blood sugar falls below what it should be, the body secretes these hormones to raise glucose levels. However, the body also creates the very same hormones in response to stress, so that if you're under stress your body is making available more stored sugar than it would normally.

If you don't have diabetes, this is no problem. But for people who have diabetes, that sugar can't be utilized, hence it raises their blood sugar," added Surwit, who is the author of "The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution" (Free Press, 2004).

In the book, Surwit provides a step-by-step stress-management program known as Progressive Muscle Relaxation to help reduce glucose levels.

"This technique has been shown in over 50 years of research to reduce circulating stress hormones," he says. "In our research, we've shown that the technique will produce a clinically significant change in blood sugar in most of the people who use it.

"It's a very simple technique in which people learn to tense and relax major muscle groups in a sequence. Once they get good at this, they become more aware of when their body's stress levels are deviating from what they should be and they have a very good way of dealing with it."

Since stress is actually a somewhat vague term that applies to many different psychological phenomena, Surwit has developed specific techniques designed to help manage different moods and emotions, including anxiety, depression and hostility
.
He cautions that these techniques aren't intended as a substitute for medication, exercise and a healthy diet, but can be an adjunct treatment. He adds that the program detailed in "The Mind-Body Diabetes Revolution" was designed to help make these techniques available directly to patients and that it is very easy to learn and follow.
"One of our studies that was published last year showed that these relaxation and stress-management techniques could be taught to the average person in five one-hour group meetings," he says. "The techniques are quite simple.

downloaded by Diabetic Dick - a very stressed senior citizen.
6/11/06

reprint from a patient's Journal.:

Beware of Strange Nurses

A story based on a real nurse.


NATIONAL NURSING PATIENT'S PROTECTION
ASSOCIATION (fictitious organization)

Our Motto: "We thank God for a long, strong Sword and hope never to use it."

Our objective in addition to protecting nursing home and rehabilitation facility patients is to keep the public informed.

Many people are not aware, that hospitals and nursing homes have a difficult time protecting patient's from the facilities' own employees.

Often it is difficult to pick out the reasonable and rational nurses or CNA's. Many times, employees, who have been embittered by years of difficult lives, and times, are affected emotionally, so that it negatively affects how they treat the helpless patients assigned to them. This has been demonstrated by illogical actions, poor judgment and incorrect information being passed on to attending physicians. The following is an account of a well respected R.N. working in an east coast facility:

"Angel"

We will call this nurse Angel, to disguise her true identity. She had been working in the same medical organization for over ten years. Her previous experience totaled over twenty years in the medical field.

It was a well known fact by her fellow nurses, that she disliked chipmunks. She would relate her chipmunk experiences to her peers at work. Angel equated the cute little creatures to rats. She began a project to exterminate them. Feeling that rat traps, or traditional animal traps were too messy, she purchased a "Have-A-Heart" trap. These were known as a non lethal trap, used mainly for capturing animals that would eventually be set free.
In Angel's situation, she so disliked the furry little guys, that she would prepare a five gallon pail of water and set it next to the trap. When she took a chipmunk out of the trap, she would immediately, drop the animal into the pail of water, and hold the cover on, until the splashing and screeching stopped. After Angel uncovered the pail, the expired fur ball, was put in a small trash bag and dropped into the garbage can.
We don't have the time or space to point out the occasional patient abuse for which Angel was known. Nor do we have the answer for the reason that her six year old son tried to kill her. It is obvious that Angel could be a tragedy waiting for opportunity.
Today, shocking actions by nursing workers are well published by the media.

So, we take this opportunity to remind and warn you that your confined, loved, and elderly relatives should not be considered safe.
21 December 2005

Saturday, June 10, 2006
The Wayward Ward
GUILT
I remember when I was a kid, family and friends used to good naturedly joke about giving each other a "guilt trip"
So when my kids were growing, I used to facetiously give them so called "guilt trips" while half joking, just as my mother did to me. Now I’m wondering if I didn’t in fact create a couple of monster’s, (my guardian’s) , who no longer feel guilt when they are responsible for another persons misfortune. I know that their mother brought them up with the idea that "nothing" was ever her fault. It was always the other person’s fault when anything went wrong. I have a gut feel that some of that type, of that additude, has been downloaded from their mother’s genes.
I often wonder about how adult children can profess to love their father, but decide on courses of action which demeans their father’s life, making it hardly worth living. I guess it must have to do with how much you are willing to go out of your way for your parents’ happiness. Lack of the feeling of guilt, causes feelings of responsibility to diminish to non excistance.

PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME?
IN ADULT CHILDREN?
In my quest to find an answer to the question of why some adult children do things to make their parents depressed and despondent, and show no guilt about it, I have looked at the possibility that their subconscious may be affected by something called Parental Alienation Syndrome.
Usually this affliction is found on children whose mother continuously expels hostility, distaste and disrespect for the non resident father. The profile of a child with PAS is probably a little different than that of an adult. As a matter of fact, I can’t remember ever hearing of an adult being characterized as having PAS. Of course that doesn’t mean that its equivalent doesn’t exist.

Also, another thought ran through my mind, in an attempt to understand why things do not get looked at from the perspective of the competent elderly.
Has anyone ever heard of "Munchausen’s by Proxy Syndrome"? This affliction is frequently found in mothers who call attention to, and over emphasize, real or imagined affliction that their children may or may not have. It’s been found by psychiatrists that a root cause for this syndrome is to draw attention to the parent, and they end up with the feeling of power for their apparent taking charge of the situation.
I see the possibility of something like this, in my children. Especially since they have never had any children of their own, to have power over. It looks as if I may be their surrogate child. Great, just what I need at age 68, to be acting childlike and dominated by bird-brained kids. Or, for that matter,by the burocracy flunkies who maintain the broken healthcare and judicial systems.


Richard Tuniewicz "The Wayward Ward"

richardtuniewicz@yahoo.com

Seeing that there are (2-New-Witches) Tuniewicz's all over the United States, Canada, and not the least in Poland, this blog is dedicated to all our ancestors living and dead.

Something I saw in a senior blog: "A BLOG IS LIKE A LITTLE "FIRST AMMENDMENT MACHINE"". Also I downloaded a couple of neat graphics for your enjoyment. 1. Getting older. 2. Blog_definition .

I am hoping that Tuniewicz's from all over the world will write about themselves, what experiences that they, and our other relatives have had. If in the past there have been some Tuniewicz skeltons in the closets, I'm sure that it will be entertaining folklore for our readers.

I am Richard Tuniewicz, a 68 year old father of two childless children aged 40 and 44. I am writing this blog from the confinement of a nursing home into which I was placed, after my children illadvisedly, and against my wishes, decided that I was incompetant and needed guardianship.What a bunch of bull. It seems that there are a whole beaurocracy of people in healthcare and the judicial system whose main job is to keep the elderly in storage, so that relatives won't have to cope with the responsibility of caring for their elder parents.

So nowadays, you can can easily lie and exaggerate about your parents, get guardianship of them, and have them locked up in a distant nursing home. All this wonderfull convenience and without an iota that troubling word "guilt".

RichardTuniewicz@yahoo.com 6/09/06

I hope you family members are also dog lovers. At one time I lived with between 18 and 21 Bouviers des Flandres, herding dogs. (was I eccentric? yes, but I loved it.) Needless to say, feeding, training, grooming, and working full time to feed my large 4 legged family, took a lot of time. Just digging 4 foot deep post holes to dispose of doggie refuse kept me in shape. When you accept a responsibily for the care and welfare of others, you should have the guts to do the best job you can. Even then your not going to be perfect.
HERE ARE A FEW OF MY 4 LEGGED GUARDIANS AND PROTECTORS.



The Wayward Ward